JUSTICES: CAN'T MAKE EMPLOYERS COVER CONTRACEPTION — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruled Monday that some corporations can hold religious objections that allow them to opt out of the new health law requirement that they cover contraceptives for women.

Americans Losing Confidence in All Branches of U.S. Gov't — Confidence hits six-year low for presidency; record lows for Supreme Court, Congress — WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans' confidence in all three branches of the U.S. government has fallen, reaching record lows for the Supreme Court …

The Bait-And-Switch Behind Today's Hobby Lobby Decision — Protesters hold signs in support of Obamacare's birth control mandate — For many years, the Supreme Court struck a careful balance between protecting religious liberty and maintaining the rule of law in a pluralistic society.

6 Stupid Arguments About Hobby Lobby From Dumb Liberals — The Supreme Court's decision today affirming the right of business owners to run their businesses in accordance with their religious beliefs has caused no small amount of consternation among the anti-science, functionally illiterate Left.

Three Bodies Found Believed to Be Missing Israelis — JERUSALEM — Israeli military searchers found three bodies believed to be those of the missing Israeli teenagers who disappeared more than two weeks ago in the occupied West Bank, a senior government official said on Monday.

How Hillary Won Over the Skeptical Left — The surprising source of Clinton's invincibility — Jay Brown is a blunt-talking doctor from Ames, Iowa, the kind of guy who believes the biggest threats to the republic are the Koch brothers, Rupert Murdoch, and the corporatization of politics.

Harris v. Quinn ruling: Unions hit, but not fatally, by SCOTUS — The conservative majority on the Supreme Court on Monday signaled its distaste for state laws requiring public-sector workers to pay union dues — but stopped short of sweeping them away, handing organized labor a sweet but potentially short-lived victory.

Charlatans, Cranks and Kansas — Two years ago Kansas embarked on a remarkable fiscal experiment: It sharply slashed income taxes without any clear idea of what would replace the lost revenue. Sam Brownback, the governor, proposed the legislation — in percentage terms …

Before Shooting in Iraq, a Warning on Blackwater — WASHINGTON — Just weeks before Blackwater guards fatally shot 17 civilians at Baghdad's Nisour Square in 2007, the State Department began investigating the security contractor's operations in Iraq. But the inquiry was abandoned …

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